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broadwell, sent harassing e-mails to a woman close to petraeus. according to an official, it was that probe that caused the investigation of petraeus and broadwell. a phone call from the fbi came on election night. but it's unclear when the fbi probe began. >> the fbi director had the obligation to tell the president or the national security council at the earliest date. it has been going on for several month and yet now it appears that they are saying that the fbi didn't realize it until election day that general petraeus was involved. it just doesn't added a up. >> reporter: among other questions, why weren't key lawmakers told sooner? the house and senate intelligence committees weren't informed until friday. >> are you going to investigate why the fbi didn't notify you before? >> yes. absolutely. i mean, this is something that could have had an effect on national security. i think we should have been told. >> reporter: not everyone on the hill was totally in the dark. house majority leader eric cantor said an fbi leader told him about the affa
broadwell, sent harassing e-mails to a woman close to petraeus. according to an official, it was that probe that caused the investigation of petraeus and broadwell. a phone call from the fbi came on election night. but it's unclear when the fbi probe began. >> the fbi director had the obligation to tell the president or the national security council at the earliest date. it has been going on for several month and yet now it appears that they are saying that the fbi didn't realize it until...
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she was so concerned, she contacted the fbi who according to our sources traced it back to paula broadwell. as the fbi continued to investigate, they discovered e-mails pointing to a romantic u sexual relationship between the two. early concerns about the e-mails being hacked. but the evidence never turned up to be compromise to intelligence. >> what more do they have to investigate now and why wasn't the white house told until this week? >> the fbi investigation is largely done and the early evidence there will not be criminal charges. this deinvolved into a personal matter. petraeus had been confronted in the last couple of weeks, as for the timing of disclosure, one official siaid that's how it turned out. >>> all right, pierre. let's turn to saxby chambliss and patty murray. thank you for joining us. senator chambliss, when did you first find out about this investigation of general petraeus and what were you told? >> well, i was not told about it until friday. you know, the intelligence community became aware of it on tuesday. actually, late afternoon on tuesday. and then, by the time
she was so concerned, she contacted the fbi who according to our sources traced it back to paula broadwell. as the fbi continued to investigate, they discovered e-mails pointing to a romantic u sexual relationship between the two. early concerns about the e-mails being hacked. but the evidence never turned up to be compromise to intelligence. >> what more do they have to investigate now and why wasn't the white house told until this week? >> the fbi investigation is largely done and...
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the private gmail account that apparently that paula broadwell had access to, i think raises real security questions. >> david petraeus, in his rules for living, someone is always watching. >> dianne finestein said that, she wished he didn't resigned. but he had no choice. >> i think he didn't have any choice. >> katrina, i know that you don't agree -- >> i think this is a personal matter. you know, it's a tragedy for the family. but i do think, it's kind of interesting to watch the coverage. because there's such venn ration for david petraeus. you would think the worst thing that the cia has ever done is engage in an extramarital affair. i think general petraeus was the architect of a failed counterinsurgency program. i think it's time for our media to pay less attention to extramarital affairs and we need to pay more attention to scandals or concerns like that and also the escalation of the drone war. which the general made a big part of his portfolio. >> you're talking about the failure, talking about afghanistan earlier -- >> talking about iraq as well. because of the counterinsurgency
the private gmail account that apparently that paula broadwell had access to, i think raises real security questions. >> david petraeus, in his rules for living, someone is always watching. >> dianne finestein said that, she wished he didn't resigned. but he had no choice. >> i think he didn't have any choice. >> katrina, i know that you don't agree -- >> i think this is a personal matter. you know, it's a tragedy for the family. but i do think, it's kind of...
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federal agents quickly traced the emails back to petraeus' biographer, paula broadwell. a further investigation then revealed stunning evidence that broadwell and petraeus had been involved in an extra marital affair. the f.b.i. found that petraeus and broadwell had exchanged numerous messages. some of them coded. others explicit. the communication seemed so out of character at first that agents wondered if someone had breached the c.i.a. director's email. but that did not happen. sources say when the f.b.i. asked petraeus about the communications, he confessed his indiscretions. as for the woman who received the original emails, officials say broadwell may have perceived her as arrive al for petraeus' attention. broadwell and petraeus have often been seen together in public. broadwell spent considerable time with petraeus when he commanded forces in after fan stan while doing research for her book "all in: the education of general david petraeus." on her publicity tour married mother of two children said she would frequently conduct interviews with petraeus while on wor
federal agents quickly traced the emails back to petraeus' biographer, paula broadwell. a further investigation then revealed stunning evidence that broadwell and petraeus had been involved in an extra marital affair. the f.b.i. found that petraeus and broadwell had exchanged numerous messages. some of them coded. others explicit. the communication seemed so out of character at first that agents wondered if someone had breached the c.i.a. director's email. but that did not happen. sources say...
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the person who wrote his biography, paula broadwell. and no one may have found out had the fbi not followed up on a complaint about his mistress sending harassing e-mails to another woman close to petraeus. bob, how big of a deal is this for the cia? >> it's big. i've never seen a cia director walk out the door like this confessing to an affair right before crucial hearings next week. whether he shows up or not, we don't know. what he's going to say now that he's not cia director could be explosive. we have not seen the last chapter in this at all. >> you believe we're missing the real story here. why? >> don, we are. first of all, you have to get clear, the fbi does not investigate affairs, adultery, anything like that. it doesn't do it routinely. it's too busy. something came to their attention. and it wasn't harassing e-mails. you can't go to your local fbi office and say, hey, i'm getting nasty e-mails, will you please look into it? they'll throw you out the door. secondly, in order to get into petraeus' e-mail, the fbi would have n
the person who wrote his biography, paula broadwell. and no one may have found out had the fbi not followed up on a complaint about his mistress sending harassing e-mails to another woman close to petraeus. bob, how big of a deal is this for the cia? >> it's big. i've never seen a cia director walk out the door like this confessing to an affair right before crucial hearings next week. whether he shows up or not, we don't know. what he's going to say now that he's not cia director could be...